Dalia Mogahed

Bio

Dalia Mogahed is Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), where she leads pioneering research on American Muslim communities, and she runs Mogahed Consulting. Born in Cairo and raised in the United States, she trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. As former Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, she directed the largest study of Muslim opinion ever conducted, co-authoring 'Who Speaks for Islam?' with John Esposito. She advised President Obama on faith-based partnerships and is a widely viewed TED speaker on identity, pluralism, and belonging.

The big questions

The kind of questions this session opens up.

1. Can a society be truly prosperous if it develops some of its people and quietly leaves the rest behind?
2. Why are the places richest in human difference so often the places most afraid of it?
3. What do we actually mean by “human development” -- and who gets to decide when a life is flourishing?
4. Is diversity a problem a democracy has to manage, or the very thing that makes it strong?